G2 Vendor Directory

CLion vs. KDevelop

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricCLion

by JetBrains

KDevelop

by KDE

Overall rating4.44.6
Review count5510
Ease of use8.69.1
Ease of setup9.310.0
Quality of support8.28.3
Meets requirements9.09.3
NPS70.3703770
Small Business61.1%50.0%
Mid-Market20.4%20.0%
Enterprise18.5%30.0%
Total page views15123
Total LLM citations1,63444

CLion

CLion is a smart IDE for developing in C or C++ on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It’s packed with an in-depth code analyzer, a range of code generation options, and the ability to navigate to anywhere in your code in one click. CLion understands modern C++ standards and provides preprocessor support. It integrates with GDB/LLDB and a set of unit testing frameworks. CLion provides various options for remote and embedded development.

Pros

    KDevelop

    KDevelop is a free, open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other Unix flavors. It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages. It is based on KDevPlatform, and the KDE and Qt libraries and is under development since 1998.

    Pros